Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at sqrt(S(NN))= 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

G. Aad...[et al.]; Mogens Dam; John Renner Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Jørn Dines Hansen; Peter Henrik Hansen; Morten Dam Jørgensen; Esben Bryndt Klinkby; Stefania Xella

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.252303

Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at sqrt(S(NN))= 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

G. Aad...[et al.], Mogens Dam, John Renner Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Peter Henrik Hansen, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Esben Bryndt Klinkby, Stefania Xella

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Abstract

By using the ATLAS detector, observations have been made of a centrality-dependent dijet asymmetry in the collisions of lead ions at the Large Hadron Collider. In a sample of lead-lead events with a per-nucleon center of mass energy of 2.76 TeV, selected with a minimum bias trigger, jets are reconstructed in fine-grained, longitudinally segmented electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters. The transverse energies of dijets in opposite hemispheres are observed to become systematically more unbalanced with increasing event centrality leading to a large number of events which contain highly asymmetric dijets. This is the first observation of an enhancement of events with such large dijet asymmetries, not observed in proton-proton collisions, which may point to an interpretation in terms of strong jet energy loss in a hot, dense medium.

Original language	English
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	105
Issue number	25
Pages (from-to)	252303
Number of pages	18
ISSN	0031-9007
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.252303
Publication status	Published - 13 Dec 2010

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Aad...[et al.], G., Dam, M., Hansen, J. R., Hansen, J. B., Hansen, J. D., Hansen, P. H., Jørgensen, M. D., Klinkby, E. B., & Xella, S. (2010). Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at sqrt(S(NN))= 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC. Physical Review Letters, 105(25), 252303. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.252303

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